Frank fructuoso martin



(No Model.)

P. P. MARTIN.

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WIZI/ MW g 3M UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK FRUCTUOSO MARTIN, OF GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO ROBERT T. MOUNTAIN, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,737, dated July 23, 1889.

A Application filed November 24, 1888. Serial No. 291,758. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: The upper end of the base A has a recess or 50 Be it known that I, FRANK FRUCTUQSO channel F, which admits of ready access to MARTIN, a citizen of the United States, residthe pin (1. The two parts A and B are held ing at Gloucester, in the county of Essex and together at their lower ends by the usual 5 State of -Massachusetts, have invented certain dowel-pin G.

new and useful Improvements in Lasts; and In practice, to adjust the instep-piece, s'epa- 5 5 I do declare the following to beafull, clear, and rate the upper ends of the parts A and B the exact description of the invention, such as required distance and insert the pin d in one will enable others skilled in the art to which of the openings n or n in the plate C, so that it appertains to make and use the same, referthe said pin (1 will rest on the rear wall of ence being had to the accompanying drawings, the channelF and support the block B. The and to the letters and figures of reference plate 0 tapers in thickness, being thinner at markedthereon, which form a part of this its lower end, to prevent its binding in the specification. pocket or opening a in the base A.

15 This invention relates to lasts, and has for Having thus described my invention, what its object to provide simple and convenient I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patmeans for adjusting the instep-piece. ent, is

The improvement consists in the novel fea- 1. In a last, the combination, with the parts tures, which will be hereinafter more fully de- A and B, having corresponding openings, as

20 scribed and claimed, and shown in the ana and b, of the perforated plate 0, fitted in nexed drawings, in which one of the said openings, and the pin adj usta- Figure 1 is a side view, parts being broken bly supporting the said plate in the other away, of a last of my invention; Fig. 2,aview opening, substantially as described. similar to Fig. 1, showing the instep-piece ad- 2. The combination, with the parts A and 25 justed; Fig. 3, a top view, parts being broken B of the last, having the openings a and b, of

away, of the last; and Fig. 4, a front view of the plate 0, having two sets of openings, as 7 5- the plate that supports the adjustable end of n and n, the openings of one set coming opthe instep-piece. posite the spaces between the openings of the The last, composed of the base A and the other set, and securing-pins, substantially as 0 instep-block B, has coincident openings or described.

pockets formed in the opposing sides of the 3. The combination, with the parts A and parts A and B, the opening or pocketb being B, having openings at and b, of the plate C, in the instep-block B, and the opening or having two sets of openings and tapering in pocket to being in the base A. The plate C, thickness, and the pins dandd,substantially 3 5 fitted in the said openings or pockets, is held as described.

in the pocket I) by the pin d, which passes 4. The hereinbefore shown and described through the sides of the said pocket and last, composed of the parts A and B, having through an opening on in the plate 0, and is openings at and b, the part A having channel provided with two sets of openings 72 and n, F and the part B the recess E, the plate 0,

40 one along each edge, the openings of one set tapering in thickness and having the two sets coming opposite the spaces between the openof openings -n and n, and the pins d and d, ings of the other set. The pin d is adapted substantially as and for the purpose doto pass through any of the openings and hold scribed.

the plate in an adjusted position. The re- In testimony whereofIaffiXmy signature in 45 cess E, in the upper end of the block B, adpresence of two witnesses.

mits the insertion of the fingers or a suitable FRANK FRUCTUOSO MARTIN. instrument for withdrawing the pin (1, and \Vitnesses: also receives the projecting end of the said ROBERT T. MOUNTAIN,

pin, so it will not extend beyond the last. SUMNER D. YORK. 

